Deck 17: Organizational Architecture Trends

Question 1

What is extensible markup language (XML)?

A) A markup language for documents containing structured information
B) A markup system for integrating documents
C) A fourth generation language for integrating documents
D) None of the above

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Which of the following is considered virtualization?

A) Updating a customer address
B) Partitioning a hard drive
C) Adding RAID to a server
D) All of the above

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Which of the following does not apply to SOA?

A) A concrete tool or framework that can be purchased
B) An approach
C) A way of thinking
D) A value systems that leads to certain concrete decisions

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Business benefits for using grid computing include?

A) Improved productivity and collaboration of virtual organizations and respective computing and data resources
B) Allowing widely dispersed departments and businesses to create virtual organizations to share data and resources
C) Robust and infinitely flexible and resilient operational architectures
D) All the above

Question 5

Which of the following is not a component in an SOA architecture?

A) Business Model
B) Service Model
C) Implementation Model
D) Maintenance Model

Question 6

What is a SOA service?

A) A simple business task
B) A complex business process which only delivers value to a consumer
C) All business processes dealing with customer credit
D) All business processes dealing with employee payroll

Question 7

What is loose coupling?

A) The capability of two or more computer systems to share data and resources, even though they are made by different manufacturers
B) A markup language for documents containing structured information
C) The capability of services to be joined together on demand to create composite services or disassembled just as easily into their functional components
D) None of the above

Question 8

Which of the following is an example of loose coupling?

A) Common customer identification
B) Update customer address
C) Update account balance
D) Common customer account balance

Question 9

Which of the following is a common service example of loose coupling?

A) Conversion of currency
B) Update customer address
C) Delete customer email address
D) All of the above

Question 10

What enables organizations to optimize computing and data resources, pool them for large capacity workloads, share them across networks, and enable collaboration?

A) Virtualization
B) Interoperability
C) Loose Coupling
D) Grid Computing

Question 11

What is a framework for dividing the resources of a computer into multiple execution environments?

A) Loose Coupling
B) Interoperability
C) Virtualization
D) SOA

Question 12

Which of the following reflects Moore's Law?

A) New generations of chips deliver double the processing power as the previous generation
B) New generations of chips deliver triple the processing power as the previous generation
C) New generations of chips deliver quadruple the processing power as the previous generation
D) Impossible to determine

Question 13

Which of the following is not an additional benefit of virtualization?

A) Rapid application deployment
B) Dynamic load balancing
C) Ease of use for customer relationship management systems
D) Streamlined disaster recovery

Question 14

Which of the following is a trend responsible for moving virtualization into the spotlight?

A) System administration costs increasing
B) Data centers running out of space
C) Increasing energy costs
D) All of the above

Question 15

Which of the following is an example of a loosely coupled service?

A) The recovery of a university course registration system
B) The updating of a university course registration system
C) The backup of a banking system
D) The cellular telephone system

Question 16

What is the ability to present the resources of a single computer as if it is a collection of separate computers, each with its own virtual CPUs, network interfaces, storage, and operating system?

A) System virtualization
B) Server virtualization
C) Desktop virtualization
D) All of the above

Question 17

What are the key technical concepts of SOA?

A) Processes, integration, tight coupling
B) Services, interoperability, loose coupling
C) Services, processes, loose coupling
D) Processes, interoperability, tight coupling
Services, interoperability, and loose coupling are the key technical concepts of SOA.

Question 18

Which of the following is not part of a typical SOA solution?

A) Integrate information to make it more accessible to employees
B) Understand how business processes interact to better manage administrative costs
C) Decrease people productivity with better business integration
D) Improve customer retention and deliver new products and services through reuse of current investments

Question 19

What is an aggregation of geographically dispersed computing, storage, and network resources, coordinated to deliver improved performance, higher quality of service, better utilization, and easier access to data?

A) Virtualization
B) Interoperability
C) Loose Coupling
D) Grid Computing

Question 20

What is a business-driven IT architectural approach that supports integrating a business as linked, repeatable tasks or services?

A) Business continuity planning
B) Open systems
C) Service oriented architecture
D) Web services

Question 21

Describe the business value in deploying a service oriented architecture.

Question 22

What is often referred to as being the world's single and most powerful computer solution?

A) Virtualization
B) Interoperability
C) Loose Coupling
D) Grid Computing

Question 23

Loose coupling is simply a way of ensuring that the technical details such as language, platform and so on are _____________ from the service.

Question 24

Interoperability is the capability of two or more computer systems to share data and resources, even though they are made by different manufacturers.

Question 25

What refers to resources and applications hosted remotely as a shared service over the Internet.

A) Cloud Computing
B) Interoperability
C) Loose Coupling
D) Grid Computing

Question 26

Which is not a benefit of the SaaS model over traditional licensed software approaches?

A) Easy to Switch Providers
B) Pay One Price Fits All
C) Lower Total Cost of Ownership
D) Easier Upgrades

Question 27

Services are business tasks.

Question 28

What is a model of software deployment where an application is licensed for use as a service provided to customers on-demand.

A) Cloud Computing
B) Software as a Service
C) Loose Coupling
D) Grid Computing

Question 29

SOA is not a concrete architecture; it is something that leads to a ___________ architecture.

Question 30

SOA provides the technology underpinnings for working with services that are not just software or hardware, but rather business tasks.

Question 31

In a virtualized environment, the logical functions of computing, storage, and network elements are separated from their ____________ functions.

Question 32

Explain the need for interoperability and loose coupling in building today's IT systems.

Question 33

Identify the logical functions used in a virtualized environment.

Question 34

________________ computing refers to resources and applications hosted remotely as a shared service over the Internet.

Question 35

Explain how Moore's law affects the increasing need for virtualization?

Question 36

Service oriented architecture begins with a(n) ______________.

Question 37

Loose coupling is the capability of services to be joined together on demand to create composite services, or disassembled just as easily into their functional components

Question 38

Explain the business benefits of grid computing.